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Trees

Originally created by God—Ge 1:11,12; 2:9

Made for the glory of God—Ps 148:9

DIFFERENT KINDS OF MENTIONED

• Of the wood
• —So 2:3
• Of the forest
• —Isa 10:19
• Bearing fruit
• —Ne 9:25; Ec 2:5; Eze 47:12
• Evergreen
• —Ps 37:35; Jer 17:2
• Deciduous or casting the leaves
• —Isa 6:13

Of various sizes—Eze 17:24

Given as food to the animal creation—Ge 1:29,30; De 20:19

Designed to beautify the earth—Ge 2:9

PARTS OF MENTIONED

• The roots
• —Jer 17:8
• The stem or trunk
• —Isa 11:1; 44:19
• The branches
• —Le 23:40; Da 4:14
• The tender shoots
• —Lu 21:29,30
• The leaves
• —Isa 6:13; Da 4:12; Mt 21:19
• The fruit or seeds
• —Le 27:30; Eze 36:30

Each kind has its own seed for propagating its species—Ge 1:11,12

Often propagated by birds who carry the seeds along with them—Eze 17:3,5

Planted by man—Le 19:23

Each kind of, known by its fruit—Mt 12:33

NOURISHED

• By the earth
• —Ge 1:12; 2:9
• By the rain from heaven
• —Isa 44:14
• Through their own sap
• —Ps 104:16

Specially flourished beside the rivers and streams of water—Eze 47:12

When cut down often sprouted from their roots again—Job 14:7

Were sold with the land on which they grew—Ge 23:17

OFTEN SUFFERED FROM

• Locusts
• —Ex 10:5,15; De 28:42
• Hail and frost
• —Ex 9:25; Ps 78:47
• Fire
• —Joe 1:19
• Desolating armies
• —2Ki 19:23; Isa 10:34

Afford an agreeable shade in eastern countries during the heat of the day—Ge 18:4; Job 40:21

WERE CUT DOWN

• With axes
• —De 19:5; Ps 74:5; Mt 3:10
• For building
• —2Ki 6:2; 2Ch 2:8,10
• By besieging armies for erecting forts
• —De 20:20; Jer 6:6
• For making idols
• —Isa 40:20; 44:14,17
• For fuel
• —Isa 44:14-16; Mt 3:10

God increases and multiplies the fruit of, for his people—Le 26:4; Eze 34:27; Joe 2:22

God often renders, barren as a punishment—Le 26:20

Early custom of planting, in consecrated grounds—Ge 21:33

THE JEWS

• Prohibited from planting in consecrated places
• —De 16:21
• Prohibited from cutting down fruit bearing, for sieges
• —De 20:19
• Often pitched their tents under
• —Ge 18:1,4; Jud 4:5; 1Sa 22:6
• Often buried under
• —Ge 35:8; 1Sa 21:13
• Often executed criminals on
• —De 21:22,23; Jos 10:26; Ga 3:13; Ge 40:19
• Considered trees on which criminals were executed
• abominable—Isa 14:19

MENTIONED IN SCRIPTURE

• Almond
• —Ge 43:11; Ec 12:5; Jer 1:11
• Almug or algum
• —1Ki 10:11,12; 2Ch 9:10,11
• Apple
• —So 2:3; 8:5; Joe 1:12
• Ash
• —Isa 44:14
• Bay
• —Ps 37:35
• Box
• —Isa 41:19
• Cedar
• —1Ki 10:27
• Chestnut
• —Eze 31:8
• Cyprus
• —Isa 44:14
• Fig
• —De 8:8
• Fir
• —1Ki 5:10; 2Ki 19:23; Ps 104:17
• Juniper
• —1Ki 19:4,5
• Lign-aloes
• —Nu 24:6
• Mulberry
• —2Sa 5:23,24
• Myrtle
• —Isa 41:19; 55:13; Zec 1:8
• Mustard
• —Mt 13:32
• Oak
• —Isa 1:30
• Oil-tree
• —Isa 41:19
• Olive
• —De 6:11
• Palm
• —Ex 15:27
• Pine
• —Isa 41:19
• Pomegranate
• —De 8:8; Joe 1:12
• Shittah or shittim
• —Ex 36:20; Isa 41:19
• Sycamore
• —1Ki 10:27; Ps 78:47; Am 7:14; Lu 19:4
• Teil
• —Isa 6:13
• Vine
• —Nu 6:4; Eze 15:2
• Willow
• —Isa 44:4; Eze 17:5

Solomon wrote the history of—1Ki 4:33

ILLUSTRATIVE

• Of Christ
• —Ro 11:24; Re 2:7; 22:2,14
• Of wisdom
• —Pr 3:18
• Of kings, &c
• —Isa 10:34; Eze 17:24; 31:7-10; Da 4:10-14
• Of the life and conversation of the righteous
• —Pr 11:30; 15:4
• (Green,) of the innocence of Christ
• —Lu 23:31
• (Good and fruitful,) of saints
• —Nu 24:6; Ps 1:3; Isa 61:3; Jer 17:8; Mt 7:17,18
• (Evergreen,) of saints
• —Ps 1:1-3
• (Duration of,) of continued prosperity of saints
• —Isa 65:22
• (Casting their leaves yet retaining their substance,) of
• the elect remnant in the church—Isa 6:13
• (Barren,) of the wicked
• —Ho 9:16
• (Shaking of the leaves off,) of the terror of the wicked
• —Isa 7:2
• (Producing evil fruit,) of the wicked
• —Mt 7:17-19
• (Dry,) of useless persons
• —Isa 56:3
• (Dry,) of the wicked ripe for judgment
• —Lu 23:31